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Three insights from three Texas small-town rodeos.
The American cowboy has been the protagonist in numerous novels, movies, songs, and a staunch icon of rugged individualism. They rode north from Texas towards Montana, blazing a trail that defined the Wild West. Although “vaqueros” (ranch cattle herders) had been around in Mexico for quite some time, Americans started occupying ranches once owned by…
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Day of the Dead in Terlingua: an otherworldly photographic experience
Deep into the southwestern edge of Texas lies Terlingua, a small and intimate community of desert dwellers, artists and some retirees who romanticize this mining town from the early 1900s. Terlingua marked the dawn of the mercury rush, mush like California and Alaska did for the gold rush. The mines went bust by the 40s…
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